Snow Days, Round 1

Today is the third day of round one:  snow days 2009-10.  The storm started up around midnight Tuesday morning, and Mr. Superintendent called off school around 6:35 AM.  We had a good old-fashioned blizzard from then through Wednesday night, and now, frigid temps have helped call off day 3. 

Of course, I didn't bring any work home with me on Monday, thinking there was no way school would be canceled on Tuesday.   I have an entire consensus map to poop out for curriculum mapping, and I have a small, but manageable pile of papers and projects to check.  I have to be at school to check the projects that are housed on the server, but the rest I could be doing.

Guess what I've done instead?  You got it; social networked until my fingers were numb.  I've been so thankful that the electricity didn't go out as per usual in this small-ass town;  for without the Internet, I'd be lost.  Plus, with our geothermal heat source, we need the electricity to make it run.  We have no gas in our house, except for the gas generated by Son #2, who has had the runs and the pukes for going on 3 weeks now.

The next step is to take him into a GI Specialist at the children's hospital in the Capitol City; however, said hospital has been closed due to the weather.  So, our only option is to sit and ride the storm out. 

For those keeping track at home, 3 snow days puts us going to school well into the second week of June...and it's only December 10th.  The Farmer's Almanac predicted a wet winter -- so insert your own Global Warming joke here.  I'm too tired to comment on the fact that the Midwest will soon be a tropical climate -- plus, as the parent of one of my students complained to my Principal about -- Global Warming is just a theory.

/me goes back to roaming with the dinosaurs in real life.